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JOHN BoARDMAN, F LITTLE VALLEY, NEW YORK.

WASHING-MACHINE.

e, specieatioaof Lettersratenf No. 8,215, dated Juiy 15, 1851.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known thatI, JOHN BOARDMAN,l of Little Valley in the county of Cattaraugus and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing- Machines; and Ido herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description of the construction' and operation 'of the same,

referenceybeing hadto the annexed drawings, making` part of `this specification, in which- W 1 y Figure l is anend view; Fig. 2 is a transverse section; Fig. 3, a vertical "view; Fig. 4 an end View of the pounder-frame," and Fig. 5 is alateral view of the same.

`The nature of this invention consists in constructing a revolving wash-barrel `with three semi-cylindrical and fluted recesses,

and in furnishing said barrel with a turnbling pounder-frame, so` constructed asto both pound and rub the clothes within the barrel, by the`r0tary motion of the barrel.

A trefoil shapedbarrel A, ten inches in length by twenty-five inches in diameter', has a flange o attached centrally to each head outside; andA from the center of each flange, projects a gudgeon-shaft e, which terminates 1n a square tenon to which a crank B is attached; and the gudgeons have their bearings upon the two sides of a suitably constructed frame, or an oblong watertight box or trough. The interior of the barrel has three semi-cylindrical recesses m m m, each `of"which is fluted longitudinally; the grooves or troughs within the concaves being two inches wide, and three fourths of an inch deep, whilethose on the convex spaces between the recesses, are only one inch wide and one fourth of an inch deep. The insides of the heads are also fluted. In one side of thebarrel is a door a,

secured by a rodo or otherwise. A pounding-frame consisting of a central hub and three parallel pounders, and adapted to working within the barrel, is` constructed as follows: A cylindrical hub s eight inches long by four inches in diameter, is made of `w`ood with a bar of lead in the longitudinal center ythereofto give it additional weight; and from this `hub project six radial arms, to theoutward ends of which are attached three parallel cylindrical pounders u u u, each being eightinches long by two inches in' diameter.

When this machine is to be operated, any quantity lof clothes not exceeding twentyfive square yards, are placed in the barrel, with a suitable quantity of water and soap;

and thefpounder frame being placed therein,

the door is closed and the barrelis: revolved by means of the cranks. The pounders being retarded in their motion by the peculiar` form of the barrel, the clothes generally precede them in falling into the recesses, when the pounders `fall heavily thereon; and inpassing from` one recess to another, the pounders eifectually` rub the clothes as well as pound them.

I do not claim the constructing `or. using of a revolving wash-barrel, with or without a rolling or tumbling pounder therein; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The peculiar form of the revolving barrel, with its fluted semi-cylindrical recesses, in combination `with a pounding frame, constructed with a weighted hub and three parallel pounders, as herein described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto slgned my name before two subscribing witnesses.

e e J OHN BOARDMAN.

Witnesses: t l

JAMES M. WELCH, C. F. TREVITT. 

